The Burden of Female Talent by Ronald C Egan
An exception to the rule that the first-rank poets in premodern China were men, the woman poet Li Qingzhao (10841150s) occupies a crucial place in Chinese literature. Ronald C. Egan challenges conventional thinking about Li, examining how critics tried to accommodate her to cultural norms from late imperial times into the twentieth century.-
Chinese History
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To Become a God
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Escape from the Wasteland
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Seeing Like an Official
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Drifting among Rivers and Lakes
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Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
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Beacon Fire and Shooting Star
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Longing for Landscape
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Performing Enlightenment
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Flourishing Fasts
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Up the River of Time
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The The Presence of Peach Spring
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Exile and Invention in the Prose Writings of Su Shi
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Ethnic Chrysalis
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Genealogy and Status
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The Korean Singer of Tales
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The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE
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Readings in Chinese Literary Thought
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Dialogues in the Dark
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Health and the Art of Living: Illness Narratives in Early Medieval Chinese Literature
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Elegies for Empire
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The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China
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A Historical Taxonomy of Talking Birds in Chinese Literature
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The Collapse of Heaven
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Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE–800 CE
The number of song lyrics that may be reliably identified as Li’s is halved to 36 and none is conclusively dated, while previous interpretations tied to assumptions about her life are disprovedEgan analyzes this small corpus in a tour de force entirely free of biography. But what is most valuable is that he replaces the myths with convincing portraits of Li’s thinking and actions that draw on her prose as well as poetry, developing them with sense, sensitivity and erudition… The insights of this study will elicit as much respect for her grit and her suppressed, defiant, unrealized ambitions as for her poetry. The first work of this kind in any language, The Burden of Female Talent is both grand synthesis and original scholarship, with a clear style that makes a complex story easy to follow. -- Eva Shan Chou * Times Higher Education *
Ronald Egan is the Stanford W. Ascherman, M.D. Professor of Sinology at Stanford University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780674726697 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674726693 |
| Title | The Burden of Female Talent |
| Author | Ronald C Egan |
| Series | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University, Asia Center |
| Year published | 2014-02-17 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Prizes | Nominated for Joseph Levenson Book Prize 2015, Nominated for ICAS Book Prize 2015 |
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